This proposal is in response to PA-06-180, NIH Small Research Grant Program (R03). The proposed study focuses on culturally-relevant developmental processes that are important for understanding the successful adjustment of children of immigrants in the United States. In immigrant families, Portes and Rumbaut (2001) identify generational dissonance as a family context that places children at increased risk for poor developmental outcomes. We currently know little about the mediating mechanisms that explain this relationship. Uncovering these mechanisms is important, as they may represent possible targets of intervention to increase the likelihood of successful adjustment among children of immigrants. The proposed study tests whether unsupportive parenting may operate as a mediator of the link between generational dissonance and child outcomes. The study further tests whether fathers' and mothers' parenting independently mediate the proposed relationship. It uses both cross-sectional and longitudinal self-reported survey data from mothers, fathers, and adolescents in Asian immigrant families, specifically Chinese Americans. In summary, there are three research aims. First, to test concurrent and longitudinal relations between generational dissonance and (a) unsupportive parenting, (b) adolescents' depressive symptoms, and (c) school performance. Second, to concurrently and longitudinally test whether unsupportive parenting mediates the relationship between parent-child acculturation discrepancy and adolescents' depressive symptoms and school performance. Third, we aim to test whether parent gender moderates the relationships tested in Aims 1 and 2. The proposed study is relevant to public health because it focuses on the developmental outcomes of children of immigrants, a growing and significant segment of America's children who will represent the future of U.S. workforce. It also focuses on the developmental period of early and middle adolescence, a susceptible period of transition when there are increases in socio-emotional problems that can compromise school performance. Finally, the study has the potential for identifying modifiable mediators that can be used to inform future preventive intervention work with children of immigrants. ? ? ?

Agency
National Institute of Health (NIH)
Institute
Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health & Human Development (NICHD)
Type
Small Research Grants (R03)
Project #
1R03HD051629-01A2
Application #
7532579
Study Section
Pediatrics Subcommittee (CHHD)
Program Officer
Clark, Rebecca L
Project Start
2008-09-25
Project End
2010-08-31
Budget Start
2008-09-25
Budget End
2009-08-31
Support Year
1
Fiscal Year
2008
Total Cost
$71,400
Indirect Cost
Name
University of Texas Austin
Department
Social Sciences
Type
Schools of Arts and Sciences
DUNS #
170230239
City
Austin
State
TX
Country
United States
Zip Code
78712
Shen, Yishan; Kim, Su Yeong; Benner, Aprile D (2018) Burdened or Efficacious? Subgroups of Chinese American Language Brokers, Predictors, and Long-Term Outcomes. J Youth Adolesc :
Hou, Yang; Neff, Lisa A; Kim, Su Yeong (2018) Language Acculturation, Acculturation-Related Stress, and Marital Quality in Chinese American Couples. J Marriage Fam 80:555-568
Shen, Yishan; Kim, Su Yeong; Wang, Yijie (2016) Intergenerational Transmission of Educational Attitudes in Chinese American Families: Interplay of Socioeconomic Status and Acculturation. Child Dev 87:1601-16
Kim, Su Yeong; Hou, Yang (2016) Intergenerational Transmission of Tridimensional Cultural Orientations in Chinese American Families: The Role of Bicultural Socialization. J Youth Adolesc 45:1452-65
Kim, Su Yeong; Wang, Yijie; Shen, Yishan et al. (2015) Stability and Change in Adjustment Profiles Among Chinese American Adolescents: The Role of Parenting. J Youth Adolesc 44:1735-51
Hou, Yang; Kim, Su Yeong; Wang, Yijie et al. (2015) Longitudinal Reciprocal Relationships Between Discrimination and Ethnic Affect or Depressive Symptoms Among Chinese American Adolescents. J Youth Adolesc 44:2110-21
Kim, Su Yeong; Wang, Yijie; Chen, Qi et al. (2015) Parent-child acculturation profiles as predictors of Chinese American adolescents' academic trajectories. J Youth Adolesc 44:1263-74
Kim, Su Yeong; Shen, Yishan; Huang, Xuan et al. (2014) Chinese American Parents' Acculturation and Enculturation, Bicultural Management Difficulty, Depressive Symptoms, and Parenting. Asian Am J Psychol 5:298-306
Kim, Su Yeong; Wang, Yijie; Weaver, Scott R et al. (2014) Measurement equivalence of the language-brokering scale for Chinese American adolescents and their parents. J Fam Psychol 28:180-92
Kim, Su Yeong; Chen, Qi; Wang, Yijie et al. (2013) Longitudinal linkages among parent-child acculturation discrepancy, parenting, parent-child sense of alienation, and adolescent adjustment in Chinese immigrant families. Dev Psychol 49:900-12

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